Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman?

Title: Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman?
Author: Allen Heinberg
Illustrator: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Alex Sinclair, et. al.
Publisher: DC Comics
Copyright: 2006/2007
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-4012-1234-6
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Summary and Quick Thoughts: This is Wonder Woman as you have never seen her before. Seriously. Gone is the weak, female super hero who trailed behind Batman and Superman. Instead, Wonder Woman, aka Diana, is forced to face hard facts about herself and what it means to be Wonder Woman. Readers do not need to know the events of the story Infinite Crisis to know that Wonder Woman is attempting to live as a human and stay under the radar until her actions are forgiven. Unfortunately for Diana, Circe is looking for her and will do anything to get her, especially if it means baiting her with her own assistants: Donna Troy and Wonder Girl. This trade collects issues #1 to 4 of the Wonder Woman comics.
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Recommended Audience: Mature teens; adults
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Things to be aware of: Some cleavage.
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Further Thoughts: I actually read this one after reading the second volume and I have to say, you can pretty much read the first three out of order (which I did). There is enough story in here that if you did know or didn’t know of Wonder Woman’s lackluster history (she was pretty wimpy most of the time as the introduction suggests) you won’t care. Wonder Woman is now the awesome hero she was always meant to be. The comic is now a possible platform for women’s rights. Her attitude and her need to discover who she is kept me glued to the pages wanting to know what happens next. My only qualm is that Wonder Woman is still in the traditional outfit she has always been, but at least when she dons a normal suit, it is not busty or over-sexualized at least (pants instead of mini-skirt, woo!). As a female reader, I’m happy to enjoy these stories. I’m glad that the artists of these volumes don’t make her voluptuous, only slightly busty, but mostly normal. Yes, there are still body suits, cleavage, and such, but not enough to turn this female reader off (who uses the 1980s Catwoman as an example of over-sexualized women in comics). The writers have even given Diana a formidable match in her partner in her undercover job, although, he is conveniently gone when she transforms into Wonder Woman.
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Bonus: Bonus art, Intro by Brian K. Vaughan

Source:  Library copy.